Martin Leidenfrost
Martin Leidenfrost (born October 30, 1972 in Amstetten ) is an Austrian writer . He lives and works in Burgenland .
Life
Martin Leidenfrost attended from 1983 to 1991, the Stiftsgymnasium the Benedictines in Seitenstetten ; After completing school and community service, he was admitted to the Vienna Film Academy in 1992 and lived in Vienna until 2004 , interrupted by a stay in Berlin , where he studied dramaturgy at the Potsdam-Babelsberg University of Film and Television in 1996/97 . From 1998 to 2002 he studied Slavic Studies at the University of Vienna and has since traveled repeatedly through Eastern Europe. In 2002 he graduated from the Vienna Film School.
Since 2004, Martin Leidenforst lived in Devínska Nová Ves , a district of Bratislava , on the Slovak-Austrian border river March , 35 km east of Vienna. He works as a freelance writer and writes travel literature, scripts, feature pages and books. Since 2008 he has also lived and worked in Brussels, as the author of a European capital column that appears in various newspapers in Austria, Germany, Slovakia and Switzerland. Today he lives in Burgenland. Leidenfrost is married to a Slovak woman and has one child. From January to December 2018 he wrote the controversially received column "The Last Crusader" for the daily newspaper Die Presse and also the report series "Expedition Europe".
He wrote the screenplay for the feature film alias Holec with Franz Novotny and Alrun Fichtenbauer. The feature film Life Guidance , for which he wrote the screenplay with Ruth Mader , was invited to the 2017 Venice Film Festival in the Giornate degli Autori section .
Awards
- 2003 Invitation to the Un Certain Regard series at the Cannes Film Festival for Struggle (screenplay for a feature film)
- 2004 SR / ZDF script award, also for Struggle
- 2005 Carl Mayer script award (main award) for Serviam (script for a thriller, together with co-author Ruth Mader )
- 2007 International Journalism Prize European Journalism Prize Writing for CEE The world behind Vienna
Works
- The world behind Vienna . Picus-Verlag, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-85452-629-2 .
- The dead in the river: the unresolved case of Denisa S. Residenz-Verlag, St. Pölten / Salzburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-7017-3128-2 .
- Brussels delicately tart. Fifty European expeditions . Picus-Verlag, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85452-660-5 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Martin Leidenfrost in the catalog of the German National Library
- Martin Leidenfrost's website
- Martin Leidenfrost in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.leidenfrost.net/leben/cv.html
- ^ Salzburger Nachrichten: Venice Film Festival: Ruth Maders invited with "Life Guidance" . Article dated July 25, 2017, accessed July 25, 2017.
- ↑ http://www.struggle.at/html/html/index.htm
- ↑ http://www.kulturserver-graz.at/v/leidenfrost.martin.html
- ↑ http://www.kulturserver-graz.at/kulturamt/131#2005
- ↑ http://www.residenzverlag.at/?m=20&o=2&char=L&id_author=477
- ↑ http://www.apa.at/cee-award/
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leidenfrost, Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 30, 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Amstetten |